A second of Suzanne Capper’s murderers has had her sentence reduced – after showing remorse and helping prevent a jail break.

Jeanne Gillespie – formerly Powell – was jailed for a minimum of 25 years after Suzanne, from Moston, Manchester, was savagely tortured and killed in 1992.

Now the High Court has reviewed Gillespie’s sentence and reduced it by two years.

The ruling means she can apply for parole in late 2016 or early 2017.

Suzanne’s mother Elizabeth Dunbar, from Salford, said she was furious at the decision, which comes after another of the gang had her sentence cut.

She said: “I can’t understand how they could reduce the sentences of the two ringleaders in my daughter’s murder.

“At the end of the day, we are just not being listened to or even considered by the judge.

“What can I do? I’m banging my head against a wall.”

Suzanne was just 16 when she was held captive, then beaten, injected with drugs and brutally tortured over seven days in December 1992.

She was then driven to woods at Werneth Low in Stockport, where she was set on fire. Suzanne survived long enough to name her attackers, and four people were jailed for murder at Manchester Crown Court in 1993.

Gillespie was ordered to serve a minimum of 25 years, but that has been cut to 23 years to reflect her progress in prison. She will only then be freed if she can convince the parole board that the danger she posed to society has passed, and she will remain on licence for life.

Earlier this month Bernadette McNeilly had her sentence for murder cut by 12 months after a judge was told she was a ‘model prisoner’.

Gillespie’s husband Glyn Powell, and Anthony Dudson were also found guilty of the murder.